background & aim: stress and anxiety due to waiting for treatment results and uncertainty of treatment success are common problems in infertile women. acupuncture has been suggested as an effective strategy to relieve anxiety. this study aimed to review the available evidence on the effects of acupuncture on anxiety in infertile women. methods: this systematic review was conducted via searching...

objective: nowadays, many infertile couples can have child by assistant reproductive technology (art). always the undesirable effects of these methods on newborn are considered and are evaluated. the aim of this study is to describe the impact of art on ocular and visual performances of infants born by these methods. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 479 infants age...

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have been used successfully in humans, domestic and laboratory species for many years. In contrast, our limited knowledge of basic reproductive physiology has restricted the application of ART in companion animal, non-domestic and endangered species (CANDES). Although there are numerous benefits, and in some cases a necessity, for applying ART for the re...

In the past decade, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as oocyte transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and nuclear transfer (cloning) have become effective enough for clinical use. ART such as oocyte transfer and ICSI allow production of foals from mares that cannot provide an embryo by standard embryo-transfer procedures. For the equine practitioner, application of ART ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that couples who conceive with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) invest more in their child than those who conceive spontaneously. This study examined how parental investment in the child (PIC) varied as a function of method-of-conception, gender and other contextual variables, i.e. prenatal depression, social support and satisfaction with the marital rel...

Velazquez MA. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Cattle: Applications in Livestock Production, Biomedical Research and Conservation Biology. ARBS Annu Rev Biomed Sci 2008;10:36-62. In cattle, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can be defined as techniques that manipulate reproductive-related events and/or structures to achieve pregnancy with the final goal of producing healthy offsprin...

Assisted reproductive techniques have been a great blessing for the infertile couple. Some have questioned their use, citing the unknown risk to the unborn child. The emergence of one of the newest techniques, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, has again sparked debate on the ethics of assisted reproductive techniques. Those who oppose intracytoplasmic sperm injections use are primarily concerne...

This paper provides an appraisal of countries that have legislations pertaining to assisted reproductive technologies (ART). In doing so, the paper highlights the emphasis on the protection of reproductive freedom of the couples seeking ART treatment. This belief is grounded primarily on the basic notion of liberalism that attaches primary importance to respect for individual freedom, which is ...

Heterotopic pregnancy is defined as intrauterine and extrauterine pregnancy entity coexisting simultaneously and which has been on the rise in recent years with the development of assisted reproductive techniques. We report 4 cases of heterotopic pregnancy, three of them resulting from assisted reproductive technologies and a spontaneous case. We also describe the methods used for diagnosis, th...